This paper aims at positioning producer cooperatives within the Transaction Cost Economics theory, one of the most cited and prolific theories on management studies. To accomplish this goal, I will answer the questions what is a cooperative, which transactions producer cooperatives regulate, under which market conditions they operate, and where are the boundaries for such organizations. This pa...

This paper analyzes how producer cooperatives may bene t households in rural environments. In particular, it explores if cooperatives help poor households to exit poverty through three mechanisms: increases in prices, total factor productivity, and relaxation of credit constraints. In a multi-period model I characterize the conditions that must hold so that the always poor can exit poverty when...

Cooperatives, an important part of Oceania’s economies, are attracting renewed interest as organisational form for addressing societal challenges. Yet that mission often depends on growth and internationalisation strategies, which introduce multiple tensions can lead to erosion cooperative principles. How cooperatives successfully manage such arising from has been understudied by IB scholars. O...

With globalization, small rural producers must compete in a competitive economic market. Due to their small size and limited financial capacity, they face significant challenges in doing so. We discuss the design and evaluation of two mobile phone based tools to help small producers achieve economies of scale and a quality premium. These tools were developed using CAM, a camera-based mobile pho...

The Fair Trade coffee initiative attempts to channel charity from consumers to poor producers via increased prices. Though widely heralded, we show that the rules of the Fair Trade system permit complete arbitraging away of rents due to costly excess certification of output. Using data from an association of coffee cooperatives in Central America, we verify that arbitrage on this margin causes ...

A steep decline in coffee prices at the producer level led to considerable pressure for farmers in Costa Rica and producer countries all over the world. One possible reaction was moving to specialty markets, where price pressure was perceived to be lower. We use original survey data from 2002/03 and 2003/04 to analyze the factors influencing efficiency levels of conventional and specialty coffe...

The Fair Trade (FT) initiative has been hugely popular with coffee consumers around the world, and yet the creation of durable producer rents is challenging in a competitive market environment. We model the FT premium actually received by producers and suggest that rents are in fact dissipated, but that this occurs in ways that are quite obscure to consumers. First, over-certification dilutes t...

Cooperative is a business entity that owned and managed by its members with the principle of mutual cooperation. With kinship, cooperatives have potential to help community's economy. data in Batu City shows there are only 20 producer out total 208 cooperatives. The purpose this research analyze so it can find right strategy development Andamel Producer order survive be able compete other compe...

Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Game-based bargaining theory is presented to evaluate the potential of and stability of cooperative coalition among producers for enhancing producer returns and managing market price and income risk. Results clarify that collective bargainin...